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Transplanted from puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth, Not perfect.
$ pip install playwright-stealth
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from playwright_stealth import stealth_sync
with sync_playwright() as p:
for browser_type in [p.chromium, p.firefox, p.webkit]:
browser = browser_type.launch()
page = browser.new_page()
stealth_sync(page)
page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')
browser.close()
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
from playwright_stealth import stealth_async
async def main():
async with async_playwright() as p:
for browser_type in [p.chromium, p.firefox, p.webkit]:
browser = await browser_type.launch()
page = await browser.new_page()
await stealth_async(page)
await page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
await page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')
await browser.close()
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())
FAQs
playwright stealth
We found that playwright-stealth demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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